What Tech are you thankful for?

Roguetadhg

I'm thankful for 30" Monitors!

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kriscamaro68

I am only thankful for 24" monitors.

Tackle

Aww..15.4" here.

Thankful for phones with 4g.

sratakhin

23" and 19". Don't even need more, although it would be cool to have a Retina display for my desktop

ptilsen

As much as I love monitors, I'm feeling most thankful for flash media. SSDs have completely and finally changed the computer experience, which had largely been stagnant since the first quad-core processors came out. There was simply little need for faster processors and more RAM. I think we'd largely be content with 4GB of RAM and a dual-core processor to this day if it weren't for SSDs.

Other devices have similarly come a long way as a result of flash. Remember when portable music players had hard drives? Heck, remember when there were portable music players? Cheap, fast, reliable flash made the smartphone and tablet possible just as much as the progress of ARM CPUs.

DevilWAH

Spell checker... it might not look like it but bad as my spelling is here, it is 100 times worse with pen and paper.

I would never have got through Uni or a Job with out a computer to help. when I started at at uni I would write out an essay 4 or 5 times (final draft) before I was happy it was OK to go. Now with a computer I can type out my thoughts as fast as the come and then go back to tidy it up later.

Yep defiantly the word processor and what it has lead to.. that and google of course.

forestgiant

I'm thankful for streaming audio, MP3s, audio books, and whatever devices that play them. My commutes and slow times were more productive because I could actually learn something new whenever and wherever.

RouteMyPacket

I am thankful for the printer that prints my paycheck!

ptilsen

RouteMyPacket wrote: »

I am thankful for the printer that prints my paycheck!

You still get a physical paycheck? I think I've received maybe five or six in my life. It takes a pay period or three for direct deposit to kick in at most companies.

jmritenour

RouteMyPacket wrote: »

I am thankful for the printer that prints my paycheck!

On that note, I'm thankful for the automated transaction process that shifts funds from my employer's bank account to mine via direct deposit.

wd40

I am thankful for Internet on mobile phones, remember the days that you had to go to an internet cafe to browse the net?

MickQ

Controllable combustion. Yeah, call me old school.

nosoup4u

DevilWAH wrote: »

Spell checker...

Oh man so true! I'm not a native English speaker and I really need it sometimes!

The built in spell checkers from firefox and Microsoft are ok, but I just copy my horrible attempt at words and paste them into Google and 97% of the time it knows!

Akaricloud

I'm thankful for cheap tablets. My $160 Nexus 7 has proven to be perfect for CBT Nuggets and reading books almost anywhere.

veritas_libertas

The Internet!

Dakinggamer87

My smartphone and 25" monitors

W Stewart

I'm thankful for the internet. It's been such a great resource to me and it's removed so many limitations on knowledge and communication.

jibbajabba

Mostly thankful for the thing which boils my tea-water

YFZblu

jmritenour wrote: »

On that note, I'm thankful for the automated transaction process that shifts funds from my employer's bank account to mine via direct deposit.

This! And the internet.

Also, nice thread Rogue.

Zorodzai

Virtual Machines...... I can test so many things in the office that would have otherwise required me to travel to a client site.

pizzaboy

Definitely the internet and the direct deposit transaction

cyberguypr

Commodore 64. That was the one device that got me interested in computers at an early age.

SteveLord

Solid State Drives. From my desktop to my laptops both at home and at work. Next stop...getting some to put in our VMware environment at work.

xocity

im thankful for the TE community, and youtube, and wifi

Blackout

Youtube, netflix, Direct Deposit, Samsung Galaxy S3, Jelly Bean, Solid State Drives, Good Headphones, I seriously could go on and on.

the_Grinch

Smartphone. At this point I don't think I could get through my day without it.

FloOz

Definitely gonna go with the smartphone

RomBUS

E-readers, tablets and smartphones (GPS and mobile email capability mostly)

Webmaster

USB sticks/flash storage. Two decades ago I used to take two bags to school, one for books, one for floppy disks. Great for frequent data backups, moving data, reliable and secure.

petedude

Lots of tech.

The Internet-- it has been useful in ways that would be beyond words to express.

My "new" Cruz PS47 tablet-- does everything I've needed an Android tablet to do (and quickly!), even if it doesn't support Google's apps.

Smartphones-- I've been able to keep up with lots of things in my world lately that I would have been lagging on before.

Danielh22185

I'm thankful for Air conditioning, without that I would not have survived this many Texas summers, plus it keeps our computing equipment cool!